On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 15:56, Dieter Maurer <die...@handshake.de> wrote:
> The "product_name" parameter used to be mandatory -- thus all
> calls to "ToolInit" had to use it.
> Then, a means was found to derive it automatically
> from the context. The developper was so happy that he wanted all
> others immediately drop the parameter -- result: several dozens of deprecation
> warnings for each start -- in trivial cases, where the automatically
> derived information was identical to the explicitly provided....
> I called out "what a stupidity"....